Changes
as of the November 2000 ElectionsGovernor:
Frank O'Bannon (D) won re-election over David McIntosh (R) and Andrew Horning
(L).State
Legislature: All 100 House seats and 25 of 50 Senate seats up. Partisan
balance in the House remained the same while Republicans picked up a seat
in the Senate. House 53D, 47R Senate 18D, 32R.U.S.
House: Republicans retained two seats left open by retirements: 2.
M.Pence (R); 7.
B.Kerns (R)U.S.
Senate: Dick Lugar (R) won re-election over David L. Johnson (D) and Paul
Hager (L).

Turnout
as a percentage of voting age population was 49.44%. (U.S. avg. 53.76%)...lPetition
candidates were required to obtain signatures of 30,716 registered voters
(2% of the votes received for Sec. of State in 1998). Nader petitions
contained only 15,891 valid signatures, so the Indiana Election Commission
in its Aug.
24 meeting declined to place Nader on the ballot.

OverviewBush-Cheney won Indiana's
12 electoral votes with a plurality of 343,856 votes (15.65 percentage
points), carrying 86 of the state's 92 counties. Gore won in Lake
(Gary), LaPorte and St. Joseph (South Bend) counties in the Northwest corner
of the state, as well as in Perry, Scott, and Vermillion.

Gov. Bush made a couple of
visits to the state: on Sept. 6 he did an airport rally and a Republican
Party reception in Indianapolis, and on Oct. 27, on his Michigan Bus tour,
he did an airport departure in South Bend.

For the Democratic ticket,
Sen. Lieberman delivered a major address on faith and values at the University
of Notre Dame in South Bend on Oct. 24.